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| Criterion |  Business Strategy Ansoff Matrix |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check |  Product Discovery Fake Door Test |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | The Ansoff Matrix organizes growth options by market and product relation. It helps weigh expansion, diversification, and adaptation cleanly against each other. | When demand only needs to be roughly verified, it tests interest with minimal effort. It measures whether people would take a next step at all. | The 5-Minute VC Check clarifies opportunities and strategic options at the earliest idea stage. It compares problem quality, customer willingness to pay, alternatives, differentiation, and market potential, and captures the result as a VC-check note, go/sharpen/park decision, and risk list. | When demand is still unclear, it measures interest in a feature before it is built. It separates real behavior from polite agreement and deliberately keeps build effort small. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 1-5 Tage | 5-15 min | 1-5 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | Nutzertraffic | 1-5 | Nutzertraffic |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Ansoff Matrix, Growth Options, Risk Notes | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step | Click Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision |
Tagsno overlap | GrowthStrategyMarketPortfolio | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | StartupValidationCompetition | ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery |